Passenger-car.



N0. 840,704. PATBNTED JAN. 8, 1907 R. H. & MwE. MOORE..

- PAS'SENGER GAR.

APPLIOA'IION FILED APB..19 1906.

M v wM UNITED STATES .PATEN4 F FICE.'

ROBERT {MOORE AND 'MARGUERITE E. MOORE OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

4 .PASS ENGEH-CAR,

' United States, and residents of N o; 40 West Sixty-fifth street, inthe city of New York,

county of New York, and State of New York,

have invented a riew end u'seful Improvement in the Present Type ofPassenger-Car, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the improvement on the preserit typeOfpaslsenger-car; and the objects of our improvement are:

First. A Continuous incoming and outgoing Of passengers at the Same timewithout interfering with one anothers progress.

Second. It is an essential as a time-savtar, especially during busyhours. (At present a1 passengers wishing to board a train or car areobliged to wait until the last Passenger IeaVii 1g the car is Ofl.)

Thlrd. Trains arriving at a terminal, both doorway 0r passages maybeused as exits, er the reverse.

We obtain these objects by the means illus tramted in the accompanyingdrawings, in which J Fig'ure 1 is a side view of.the end of a pas-Senger'-car with the doorways On it. Fig. 2 is a tOp view of the sa1nepassenger-car after the remova] Of the roof. Sirnilar Letters refer tosimilar parts throughout both the views. a b an Figs. 1 und 2 indicatethe doorways, y which pass6ngers may be' leav'ing the car through a;While passen ers wishjng to board it a1:e entering throu{gh c mdicatesa(partition in the center of the forward end an the centr of the rear endOf the dar. One end of this artition terminates on reachmg the track o1:groove indicated by (a.

Speciflcation of Letters Patent. Appl.ioation am April 19', 190a. Serialm. 312.733.

Patented Jan. 8, 1 907.

d indieates amovable-partition the use of which' is to divide theincoming passengers, through b, from the 'outgoing passengers, througha, their course partit1on c, which is at a right angle with it. eindicates a track being directed by the or groove on which d v inoves,Which enables the doorways 01' passagesa and b on the other side of thecar to be used for a like purpose.

f indicz'ates a doorway 011 passage. indicates Windows.

e claim+' 1. The combination, on a passenger-car, of

an additional doorway 01 passage, to the doorway or Passage now in useon both sides of e1ther end 'of a passenger-car, W1th a movable and astationaty artition communicatv ing with the said 'doorways or passages,all substantially as set forth.

2. In a passengercar the combination of an additional doorway o r passae to the doorway or passage now in use on 0th s1desof either end Ofpassenger-car, witha movable partition commum'cating with thesaiddoorways 01' ps'zssages, and vertically adjusted 'on said track ergroove, and capable of mov- 1n from o'ne end Of track o1 groove, to theot er end of same.

3. The combination of a track or gr0ove, with a movable and a stationarypartition, in

.conju'nction With the two doorways or passages on bothsides of eitherend of car, adapted for the forth. 1

ROBERT H. MOORE. MARGUERITE E. MOORE. v

Witnesses: 0

HELE N E. ENGLISH, SARAH O. ROBINSON.

purpose all substantially as set.

